US Politics November 2017

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the idea of him coming back from golfing or the spa or whatever and composing a tweet about "big meetings!" or "very important meetings!" really betrays a venal, casual and i guess juvenile mixture of disregard and contempt for his role which would be amusing if it wasn't so worrying.

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link

But not surprising

Mark G, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link

not in the slightest.

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 16:04 (six years ago) link

lolll BG well done

gimme the beet poison, free my soul (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link

the idea of him coming back from golfing or the spa or whatever and composing a tweet about "big meetings!" or "very important meetings!" really betrays a venal, casual and i guess juvenile mixture of disregard and contempt for his role which would be amusing if it wasn't so worrying.

See, I disagree; I read it as desperate insecurity and a massive inferiority complex. He knows he's a piece of shit, he knows he's not up to the job, but he's certainly not going to let everyone else know he knows it, so he bluffs. "I'm doing very important work!" Meanwhile, he's running off to the golf course for a few hours' relief from the reality of his own incompetence.

grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link

one of these days we're gonna nail trump psychoanalysis, I can feel it

Simon H., Wednesday, 22 November 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link

the golf thing, and the compulsion to visit his own resorts, is pretty fuckin weird. it reminds me of how hugh hefner would only ever stay in his own mansion or at "playboy clubs" that he had built in various cities. what does he derive from this? is there a weird compulsion we don't know about? does he not "trust" the white house in some way?

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link

my questions, Simon, to clarify, are less about psychoanalysis and more about purely salacious gossip-mongering. there should be vicious, tawdry rumours about what he does at these clubs

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link

"He knows he's a piece of shit, he knows he's not up to the job,"

He doesn't think this imo.

Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link

He's not capable of that sort of self-reflection

Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link

how hugh hefner would only ever stay in his own mansion or at "playboy clubs"

Well, I mean ...

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link

Trump just wants to be in a place where he can show off and pretend he is in control.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 16:17 (six years ago) link

let’s not forget that the trump org gets paid every time trump stays at his own properties too - all the comforts of home and with pocket money provided by the taxpayer

It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link

tapps everywhere in the whitehouse

j., Wednesday, 22 November 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link

Democratic Sen. Tom Carper says White House economic adviser Gary Cohn faked a bad connection to get President Trump off the phone so they could have a conversation on tax reform without him https://t.co/qcUnSEsysl

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 22, 2017

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link

Like, of all the periods when the span of my life could've transpired, why did it have to overlap with a period where the federal government is morphing into a late-period Zucker-Abrams-Zucker production? I could've been comfortably interred in the ground for the past fifty years instead of bearing witness to this.

Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link

At some point, every warrior eventually runs out of arrows. His armor wears thin yet grows heavier still. He must lay down his weary helmeted head for rest.

Even Coriolanus was forced to retreat — at the behest of his mother.

Not so Donald Trump.

Not a weary drop of blood pumps through the man’s veins. He wears his thick armor light as skin. His bottomless quiver is never empty.

mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:22 (six years ago) link

Ironic, since his quivering bottom is somehow always emptying.

Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:24 (six years ago) link

Oh wait...that piece is serious.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link

"PS I am wanking as I write this."

"Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link

i am not going to spend my thanksgiving break creating a fake D&D donald trump character sheet, i am not going to spend my thanksgiving break creating a fake D&D donald trump character sheet, i am not going to spend my thanksgiving break creating a fake D&D donald trump character sheet

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link

gis for bottomless donald trump

j., Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link

Artist's rendition:

https://www.entertainmentearth.com/images/AUTOIMAGES/DC21024lg.jpg

Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link

STR 6
DEX 5
CON 2
INT 1
WIS 1
LCK 18

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link

let’s not forget that the trump org gets paid every time trump stays at his own properties

As I recall, "That's called being smart."

A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link

wait has luck replaced charisma? damned millennials

mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link

STR 6
DEX 5


seems v generous tbh

It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link

i'll give him dexterity for never having gone to jail

mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/ScroogeFirst.jpg

gis for bottomless donald trump

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link

wait has luck replaced charisma? damned millennials

Oops, it’s still charisma. Still though, those millennials

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link

Like, of all the periods when the span of my life could've transpired, why did it have to overlap with a period where the federal government is morphing into a late-period Zucker-Abrams-Zucker production?

The fact that these things overlap is not at all coincidental.

Moodles, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link

Are you suggesting that I'm somehow responsible for the horrific events that are currently unfolding?

I mean, I guess it isn't entirely outside of the realm of possibility.

Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link

it's a democracy, man

you gotta responsibility

j., Wednesday, 22 November 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link

Whoops!

Roy Moore's communications director has resigned, @elainaplott reports https://t.co/RJQKjIcYn9

— Andrew Beaujon (@abeaujon) November 22, 2017

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link

Don't worry, Roy, the president isn't super busy at the moment, I'm sure he can help you out.

Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link

Roy's response "I don't know what to say..."

Evan, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link

ARGH NSFW, life, my eyes, anything.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link

NOOOOOO that pic. Do not look.

Evan, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link

looooool

marcos, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link

Artist's rendition:

https://www.entertainmentearth.com/images/AUTOIMAGES/DC21024lg.jpg

― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, November 22, 2017 12:38 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Evan, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:06 (six years ago) link

Thank u for insta-sterilizing the world with that digital saltpeter, TMZ.

Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link

trump called moore "tough on crime" compared to doug jones, so i guess being blasé about the age of consent is more important to the nation's well-being than putting away members of the kkk

maura, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link

also why are dick pics always captioned in the fucking cheesiest ways. porn has ruined dirty talk

maura, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link

Of course Trump wouldn't want to be put away?

Evan, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link

sounds like barton might be added to this list soon https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12RhR9oZZpyKKceyLO3C5am84abKzu2XqLWjP2LnQDgI/edit#gid=0

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link

that was a good read

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link

All of these "why are these allegations happening NOW" questions are dumb. Like, no shit someone may feel more urgency to come forward when the person who abused them looks poised to ride easily into the Senate AND the current cultural climate is the least hostile towards victims alleging sexual assault and rape than it has been in most of their lifetimes?

the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link

Barton should apologize ahead of time for nude selfies

Evan, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link


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